[3][12] To the displeasure of her father George James Christian, a Dominican barrister who had settled in the Gold Coast in 1902,[13] she abandoned her medical studies to begin a family with Gordon.
[3] According to biographer Ira Philip, Gordon "was brought to Bermuda by Sandys businessman William Robinson to fill a void caused by the death of black Dr Arnold Packwood.
The all white local medical board was embarrassed when Dr Gordon passed what he termed was an impossible examination which he contended was calculated to fail him.
[3] His notice to this effect in The Royal Gazette read: He gave as explanation: "The name Gordon, which I inherited, reminds me very painfully that some Scotsman in some other age compelled a grandmother of mine to submit to his desires.
He was a defender of their rights, joined the Pan-African Association founded in 1901 in England by fellow Trinidadian Henry Sylvester Williams, and became a moving spirit behind democratic political reforms at the turn of the twentieth century."
[3] Gordon took the lead in the subsequent establishment that year of the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU),[26][27] and the BWA for the time being continued as its political arm.
[3] During an extended visit to England from December 1946 to March 1947, Gordon presented a petition containing more than 5,000 signatures[28] to the British Colonial Secretary from the Bermuda Workers' Association outlining various concerns, including the limited franchise, segregation, and restricted occupational opportunities.
[31] The matter was debated in the British Parliament, which while condemning many of the practices highlighted in the petition refused Dr. Gordon's request for a Royal Commission to investigate social, political and economic conditions on the island.
)[33] At the 1948 election, Gordon lost his House of Assembly seat – a setback attributable to his preoccupation with a dock workers' dispute that year, which had limited the time he could devote to his Parliamentary duties – but he was re-elected in 1953.
One of the moral pledges by which it is held together is that the colour bar should be utterly destroyed as speedily as possible...."[17] As Bernews notes: "The Queen set foot in Bermuda the day the story broke.
He championed the Bermudian cricketer Alma Hunt, who in 1933 went to Trinidad to take part in the trial games from which would be selected the West Indies team for the Test series in England that summer.
[35] Gordon pointed out that Hunt's status would have been more assured had there been an official body to deal with finance and represent him, and advocated for a Bermuda Cricket Board of Control, which was eventually formed in 1938.
Two days later thousands of people turned out for his funeral service at St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Hamilton and burial at Calvary Cemetery, Devonshire Parish.